Sunday, April 8
| 19:00-20:00 | Registration and Welcome reception at Äkäshotelli |
Monday, April 9
| 15:00-15:10 | Opening words Matti Laine |
| 15:10-16:10 | Keynote Lecture Professor Kirk Erickson Aging, Exercise and Brain Plasticity |
| 16:10-16:40 | Coffee
Symposium 1: Aging Brain and Cognition |
| 16:40-17:10 | Alar Kaskikallio, Mira Karrasch, Juha O. Rinne, Terhi Tuokkola, & Petra Grönholm-Nyman Cognitive effects related to white matter changes in normal aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease |
| 17:10-17:40 | Petra Grönholm-Nyman, Carina Saarela, Ulla Ellfolk, Juho Joutsa, Riitta Parkkola, Matti Laine, Mira Karrasch, & Juha O. Rinne Brain structural correlates of verbal fluency performance in healthy older adults |
| 17:40-18:10 | Carina Saarela, Mira Karrasch, Juho Joutsa, Tero Ilvesmäki, Riitta Parkkola, Juha O. Rinne, & Matti Laine Brain structural correlates of emotional memory in normal aging |
| 18:10-18:20 | Short break
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| 18:20-18:50 | Hennariikka Koivisto, Satu Kaipainen, Teemu Natunen, Sami Gabbouj, Jenni Lämsä, Helena Svobodova, Mari Takalo, Mikko Hiltunen, & Heikki Tanila Diet-induced diabetes leads to memory impairment in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease |
| 18:50-19:20 | Heikki Hämäläinen, Faramosh Rashid Izullah, Anna af Schulten, Valtteri Nieminen, & Mika Koivisto The right-side perceptual bias in aging determined in a laboratory setting and during a virtual driving task |
Tuesday, April 10
| Poster Session 1: Language Processes | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Ida Luotonen, Kati Renvall, & Pirjo Korpilahti
New semantic memory tasks: Preliminary normative data and challenges in task development Molly Ungrady, Allie Kelly, Murray Grossman, & Jamie Reilly Jussi Jylkkä, Minna Lehtonen & Matti Laine Rosa Salmela, Minna Lehtonen, Seppo Vainio & Raymond Bertram Karolina Lukasik, Minna Lehtonen, Anna Soveri, Otto Waris, & Matti Laine |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee |
| Symposium 2: Building Cognitive Reserve – Strategies to Promote Brain Plasticity and Healthy Aging Organizer: Susanne M. Jaeggi |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Miranka Wirth Keeping a sharp mind: Resilience and resistance to Alzheimer’s disease pathology |
| 16:00-16:30 | Maria Teresa Bajo, Maria Jesus Maraver, Carlos J. Gómez-Ariza, Erika Borella, Claudia Cerutti, & Eugenio Franzese Training executive control during healthy aging |
| 16:30-16:40 | Short break |
| 16:40-17:10 | Alexandra Hering & Matthias Kliegel
„Did I forget to take my medication?“: Prospective memory training in older adults |
| 17:10-17:40 | Susanne M. Jaeggi, Chelsea Parlett, Martin Buschkuehl, Shafee Mohammed, Jacky Au, Chelsea Zabel, Seung Min Moon, Snigdha Kamarsu, Michelle Evans, Priti Shah, Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, & John Jonides
Training working memory in older adults using tablet technology – the effects of spacing and consolidation |
| 19:00-21:00 | Social program at Äkäshotelli |
Wednesday, April 11
| Poster Session 2: Working Memory and Its Training | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Juha Salmi, Liisa Ritakallio, Daniel Fellman, Ulla Ellfolk, Juha Rinne, & Matti Laine
Disentangling the role of working memory in Parkinson’s disease Anja Pahor, Trevor Stavropoulos, Christopher Casey, Susanne M. Jaeggi, & Aaron Seitz Matti Laine, Daniel Fellman, Otto Waris, & Thomas Nyman Otto Waris & Daniel Fellman |
| 14:00-14:30 | Coffee |
| 14:30-15:30 | Panel Discussion: Aging, Plasticity, Training – What are the Prospects? |
| 15:30 | Closing the Meeting |
Please note that the programme is subject to changes.
